The last time I mentioned my daughter’s bedroom was here, in a flap about what to do with it just before she was born. This week I bought some storage baskets to control her growing collection of tights, socks and other fiddly bits that get lost in that cupboard. They’re African, chosen for their colours […]
Aggghhhh. I’m completely obsessed. With one of those things I always feared getting obsessed with because, a) it’s something you can’t control and b) it makes you look like a Daily Mail reader (I mean the printed one, not the Sidebar of Shame, we all know that’s fine). Yes, someone’s building something I don’t like […]
So I made my very first Christmas cake, on what I’m calling Stir Up Sunday Plus One (ie it was Monday). I used the classic Delia recipe because I like a Christmas cake you could wedge a door open with, and one that lasts into at least February. I used to make cakes with my […]
Because I had a minor op last week (ah, don’t worry I’m fine), my parents came to take care of any heavy lifting required in the house. I’m not really meant to do anything more labour intensive than lead a cup of tea, which someone else made, to my lips. It’s like being on a […]
So, we asked some of our friends to submit their own Real Reveals. Not everyone did… and I think we can all draw our own conclusions from their silence as to what state their houses must be in. But here are the brave, the unafraid to show and tell: This is from the lovely Decorator’s […]